Ciro De Pau
Attachment-focused counsellor for practical change
About Ciro
Ciro De Pau is a counsellor who combines attachment-based, client-centred and cognitive approaches to help people untangle persistent worries and patterns. He offers sessions in English and Italian and works from the United Kingdom. Ciro draws on nine years of practice and holds NCPS accreditation.
He focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, sleeping problems and low self-esteem. He also helps people dealing with trauma, addictions, eating and intimacy-related issues, and the emotional effects of life changes.
Background and approach
Practical problem-solving sits alongside exploring deeper relational patterns. Ciro pays attention to how early attachments and current relationships shape feelings and choices. He also explores behaviour and thinking patterns to find small, manageable changes that make life easier day to day.
Sessions are conversational and aimed at helping people name what is happening and try different ways of coping. He has spent nine years supporting people with complex issues including trauma, identity questions, bipolar symptoms, ADHD challenges and co-occurring difficulties. His background blends academic study with direct counselling work across a range of concerns.
Working with Ciro typically involves agreeing goals, noticing patterns that keep problems going, and testing new responses in everyday life. He invites people to explore needs, boundaries and values while using practical techniques to reduce distress. Ciro offers a calm, straightforward style for those wanting to understand themselves and move forward.
What Ciro works with
How Ciro works
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Listed by Ciro among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How attachment and cognitive approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships affect present feelings and behaviour. Online conversations can help identify patterns that cause distress and build new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on how thoughts influence feelings and actions and uses simple exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Client-centred therapy offers a supportive, non-judgemental space where the counsellor follows the person’s pace and priorities, helping them find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and day-to-day challenges and suggest ways of working that match those needs. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as sessions progress to suit what helps most.
Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Italian
